> Disclaimer:  Network pilots now in circulation are not necessarily in the form that will air in the Fall.  Pilots are often reedited and rescored, and in some cases even recast or reshot.  So these critiques shouldn’t be taken as full reviews, but rather as a guide to the general style and content of the […]

  THE NIGHT SHIFT:  Tuesday 10PM on NBC – Change the Channel It’s as though NBC and series creators Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs (they were among the showrunners of the 90210 reboot, and wrote the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid movie) deliberately set out to make the least distinctive series possible with THE NIGHT […]

  Due to Thanksgiving, unless otherwise noted comparisons are to 2 weeks ago. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the […]

> EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE:  Worth A Ticket –  Earns Its Tears If EXTREMELY LOUD AND INCREDIBLY CLOSE accomplishes nothing else–and it actually accomplishes quite a bit–it’s served to let us know exactly where the third rail of current American popular culture is located.  It’s not every day that the august NY Times informs […]

  Another big win for MASKED SINGER. DEMOGRAPHIC DETAIL: For each broadcast program (or hour segment), the chart below displays preliminary live+same day key advertiser demographics (adult 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54 ratings), audience skews (women 18-49, men 18-49 and adults 50+ shares) and total viewership (thousands of people over the age of 2). Ratings analysis and […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  The NCAA TOURNAMENT games on CBS adjusted to 0.9/1.2, down from last year’s 1.7/1.4.  Elsewhere, BROOKLYN NINE-NINE dropped 0.1 in final numbers.         Broadcast Official Nationals Program Ratings Chart     CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  Thursday cable was naturally dominated by the NCAA TOURNAMENT, which took up 10 […]

  NBC made a clean sweep of the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION ratings, winning the final night with a 1.1 over 0.7 at both ABC and CBS.  Note that because of the length of the nominee’s acceptance speech, some west coast programming was delayed or partially cut off, which may lead to adjustments this afternoon. DEMOGRAPHIC […]

        NETWORK FINALS:  We weren’t able to post analysis this morning, so here’s a rundown of the night: ABC:  Compared to last week, BACHELOR IN PARADISE was up 0.1 to 1.3, and GRAND HOTEL was steady at 0.4 (but down 0.1 from this morning’s preliminary numbers). NBC:  AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR was down […]